Ake, It wasn't so long ago in human history that people with dark skin were not considered people. It also wasn't so long ago in human history that women were considered second-class citizens who had no expectation of being taken seriously when they said they were abused or raped, or had a reasonable expectation of employment on par with men. Also in recent memory and still today but less so, homosexuals were/are not treated as full human beings.

It mattered not that Blacks have a higher propensity to sickle-cell anemia, or that women have an, um, greater tendency to become pregnant than men. It also matters not whether homosexuals carry 90%, 70%, or 20% of the cases of HIV. Discrimination against ANY people is wrong in most moral codes. Discrimination against Blacks is racism. Discrimination against women is mysogyny. And discrimination against homosexuals is homophobia, plain and simple. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck; it is a duck. If you replace any of the reasons for discriminating against Blacks or women with "homosexuals" you can see how very silly it sounds.

You can come up with all kinds of statistics trying to "justify" your hatred/fear of certain people. But that does not entitle you to treat them as anything less than human beings. Fortunately for the rest of us, Ake, dinosaurs like you are becoming fewer and fewer.

Saul